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Sorry, but I just wanted to acclimate you to the latest four-week ratings “sweeps” period, which began Thursday. We’ve got all the D-FW local newscast results plus some intriguing prime-time numbers for a now NFL-less CBS. It’s all on the Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.Ed Bark

In D-FW, the game was carried on ESPN and simulcast on Gannett8. TV agreements require Monday Night Football to be available on free, over-the-air TV in the two competing teams’ markets. We have the complete D-FW ratings breakdown on our Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.Ed Bark

D-FW viewers again chose NFL football in overwhelming numbers over Sunday night’s competing Game 5 of the World Series. We’ve got all the weekend ratings details on the Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.Ed Bark

Brendan Higgins, dropped by D-FW’s CBS11 after an altercation with Aspen, Colo. authorities last August, says he has entered a “deferred prosecution agreement” in the matter. Higgins had co-anchored CBS11’s early morning weekday newscasts. Further details and Higgins’ complete statement are on the Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.Ed Bark

Whitney Drolen, main traffic reporter for D-FW’s CBS11 since August 2012, confirms to unclebarky.com that she resigned from the station on Friday, Oct. 24th. Details and her comments are on our Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.Ed Bark

HBO’s two-hour documentary, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, was made with the “unique cooperation” of his estate, which granted extensive use of previously unseen footage. The trade-off: Brown’s numerous latter day troubles are never mentioned in a film that takes his career only to the mid-1970s. There’s still much to be seen, though, and much of the performance footage is eye-popping. Our review is here.

Fox obviously would have preferred a more competitive game. But the San Francisco Giants’ 7-1 win over the Kansas City Royals still did appreciably better in the D-FW ratings than the network’s typically little seen regular Tuesday night lineup. Still, it lost viewers from 9 to 10 p.m. while also getting off to a slow start opposite potent programming on both CBS and NBC. We have a complete hour-by-hour breakdown on the Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.Ed Bark

TV westerns had been a man’s world until Annie Oakley came around in 1954. It fully stood out in that crowd, which in retrospect seems a lot clearer. All 81 episodes are newly available in a DVD collection that’s also fully loaded with extras. Note that University of Texas at Austin grad Gail Davis played the starring role. And see our review right here.Ed Bark

Winning changes everything, particularly when it involves the Dallas Cowboys. Sunday’s 31-21 victory over the New York Giants became the third of seven games to surpass the 1.5 million viewer mark in D-FW. All the details are on our Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.

Plus, Fox4 has the best of show among D-FW’s weekend morning adopt-a-pet segments.Ed Bark

Your friendly content provider has seen literally hundreds of D-FW anchor personalities come and go during nearly 35 years (the horror!) as a TV critic.

So we’re going to occasionally update you on where they are now and where they were then. Uncle Barky either has a valuable institutional memory or belongs in an institution. You make the call. Meanwhile, we’ll begin with former KDFW-TV sports anchor Ted Dawson, who’s still in the biz down Montana way. Check out our Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.

Harry Shearer is best known for two major contributions to the pop culture firmament -- The Simpsons and This is Spinal Tap. But Dallas VideoFest’s latest Kovacs Award winner also has been around long enough to have been a kid actor in some eye-catching early movies and TV shows. Learn more about him on our Dallas-Fort Worth TV page, which also has details on when and where he’ll accept this honor.Ed Bark

HBO’s Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways intends to dig deep into the fabric of various cities’ defining music in an eight-part series premiering on Friday, Oct. 17th. Austin is included, but Chicago and Washington, D.C. are the first two stops. Our review is here.

Plus, NBC5’s “Texas Connects Us” easily is the best of show as far as D-FW news team promotions go. You can see the full-length version, which runs nearly three minutes, on our Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.

The Dallas Cowboys’ Sunday smackdown of the Seattle Seahawks also set a new season-to-date D-FW ratings high. Details are on our Dallas-Fort Worth TV page, along with local ratings results for Saturday’s three marquee college football games involving Texas teams.Ed Bark

Paired with the ongoing Season 4 of Homeland, Showtime’s The Affair premieres on Sunday, Oct. 12th. Just the first of 10 episodes was made available for review, making this series particularly hard to judge. For now, though, both the premise and the promise are enticing. Our review is here.

Filmed in Hollywood but set in Dallas, the ABC sitcom Cristela premieres on Friday, Oct. 10th. Star Cristela Alonzo is a real-life, lifelong Dallas Cowboys fan. And in this show, so is her character. Our review is here.

The fourth go-around for FX’s American Horror Story will begin giving viewers the creeps on Wednesday, Oct. 8th. Subtitled Freak Show, it very much looks like the series’ best idea yet. Our review is here.

Plus, the TV Bulletin Board page has new nuggets on FX’s American Crime Story anthology series and Showtime’s new version of Twin Peaks. Ed Bark

The Dallas Cowboys’ overtime win over Houston Sunday afternoon built to a box office blockbluster by the time Dan Bailey kicked the winning field goal. All the D-FW ratings details are on our Dallas-Fort Worth TV page.

Also, a look at the reasons behind TNT’s Dallas cancellation and a response from the Dallas Film Commission. Our story is on the Network News & Reviews page.Ed Bark

Gracepoint, Fox’s version of the acclaimed British whodunit Broadchurch, keeps David Tennant in play while adding a rock-solid supporting cast. The 10-part “mystery event series” premieres on Thursday, Oct. 2nd. Our review is here.